Remaining Edwards Charges Dismissed

The Advocate reports that United States Attorney Jim Letten requested District Judge Polozola to dismiss eight untried counts in the indictments against Edwin Edwards and his cohorts. "I can't say I had given a lot of thought to these charges until the clerk's office reminded us that they were out there, and we needed to clean up the record," Letten said Monday. "In the most technical way, the book was closed very firmly the day the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear their appeals."

Posted by AJR at May 20, 2003 07:08 AM